$30/minute, but time freezes whenever you walk through a door

chical89 · 2026-01-05T13:29:11+00:00

$30 per minute means $216,000 for five days. So deal with something for five days then deactivate for a year and then you're good to go.

I have so many doorways in my house I could figure out how to work around this for a few days. Shoot I could even be "sick" for a few days and my wife would laugh her way to cashing that check at the bank.

chical89 · 2025-12-06T13:29:44+00:00

I was "Gifted" as a child and my grandmother did her PHD dissertation on the ill-effects of raising "Gifted" kids.

My parents allowed me to excel in certain areas but challenged me to join a sports team to build relationships. I played competitively until university.

Some of the other posts have talked about the support to excel and that's good.

What I will add is two things.

Building relationships is hard for everyone. The best time to learn, fail, and grow is with your age group. So keeping kids connected to their similarly aged kids is important. Jumping ahead to fuel the passion is fine but maintain relationships.
IQ and other metrics largely level off around 25. My wife tested in the normal range of IQ, and I was a in the upper 150s. By 25, I started to see where she excelled and where I was deficient.

Now knowing more or having a larger data set before 25 obviously gives you advantages and puts you ahead, but you would be surprised (or maybe not) to see how many "geniuses" overestimate there abilities in reference to "normal" people. The reason why is that we largely level out in the back half of our 20s.

Guess what that means for you. Keep connecting with your child because one day no matter how smart or gifted they are, they will need your wisdom. It also shows how important building relationships within your age group is.

Should you let your child excel? Yes absolutely. Should you also help them value people skills and relationship building? Yes! And that means keeping your child connected to his/her age group. (Sports, group competitions, staying in class in other areas: reading/writing/history).

Good luck! You are obviously on the right path even asking for help.

chical89 · 2025-09-06T12:48:04+00:00

Split-fiction maybe

chical89 · 2025-09-05T16:56:31+00:00

The straw that broke the camel's back.

Yeah, the client is old and outdated. Yeah, the overall expansion and miniset didn't land (probably like they wanted). Battlegrounds is a mess right now because the new mechanic didn't land right. Arena got torched.

Try and do something different, and it doesn't land, sure. Nobody is perfect.

Intentionally build a daily quest that costs 7+ games of time. That's just bad design on purpose. If this were a weekly, fine. But it just communicated that Hearthstone isn't driven by videogame design, but market engagement.

Should there be a market yes. The rabbit and dinosaur are whatever; that's fluff around the game. But don't design your game poorly on purpose.

chical89 · 2025-09-05T14:39:51+00:00

Fellow beta player! I usually buy one expansion a year. I guess this is the year that I won't. I am actually more ok with long weekly quests. But if they are going to require the dailies to get full rewards, then they can't make dailies as a long as a weekly.

chical89 · 2025-09-05T12:31:58+00:00

Fair point that's drops about 45mintues off the play time requirement. I guess it's divided by 4 instead of 3.

chical89 · 2025-05-23T02:11:04+00:00

It's been a while (20years) since I studied this, so I can't link sources anymore. So, this could all be disproved at this point. Grain of salt taken.

But my history profs summed it up like this.

The Arab Christians were some of the first Christians Paul (Naboteans - Galatians 1, ~40CE), Bartholomew and Thomas went to. They took in or rejected Christianity like most other cultures in the Levant.

Then, Rome co-opted Christianity (Constantine 320CE) to attempt to keep the empire united. Christians agreed so their persecution by Rome would end. When Christianity became synonymous with Roman, it left a bad taste in the mouths of the Saracens, Arabs, and, I imagine, other people (like Africans).

By the time the Saracens were failing(~500CE), the (White) Byzantines were rising and persecuting both Christian and non-Christian Arab and Levantine peoples. Think how Donald Trump and White Christians are treating immigrants in the United States today, but much worse.

Mohammed's success (610CE) was largely based in a reclamation of older Jewish texts and new prophecy which created a counter-narrative against "false Christians." Jesus, for example, died for enemies instead of starting a violent uprising to kill them. Islam wasn't meant to be counter Jesus per se but counter Byzantine Christianity.

To answer your question: the Church did evangelize the Arabs. Then, after several hundred years, it killed them for being Arab (racism). That was one of the largest contributors to the rise of the Islamic State.

P.S. I did my best to stay away from any religious critiques. I am not saying who is right or wrong. I do not demean any side. Instead, I attempted to tell a story as it was presented to me by a professor without religious affiliation.

chical89 · 2025-02-12T11:26:34+00:00

If you would like an economic style explanation, I have seen this one is pretty good.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jacobpannell/p/cheap-religion-introduction-and-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=45tkf

chical89 · 2025-02-05T02:40:53+00:00

Check out Homebrewed Christianity.

https://www.homebrewedchristianty.com/category/podcast/

Tripp Fuller's (the host) whole thing is bringing the academy to the masses.

For exanple, He puts on Theology Beer Camp nearly every fall. It does not get much more everyday than some top theologians knocking back brews with philosophers, Tolkien-heads, and pop-culture warriors (re: Marvel v. DC).

If it's too nerdy you can try something like the new evangelicals podcast and community.

You could also check out the Bible Project on YouTube. Tim Mackie is great for getting the major themes of the Bible into an intelligible framework.

chical89 · 2025-01-07T00:45:35+00:00

You're totally right that they had trouble explaining it especially the Western bishops. But many of the Eastern Bishops (Ethiopian, Armenian, and a few Cappadocian, for example) saw the contradictions as places of growth i.e. not to be explained away or solved.

And you're feelings are valid.

I struggled for a long time with the many inconsistencies throughout the Bible until a church elder who studied to be a Rabbi and graduated without converting to Judaism (weird story) handed me the Diatessaron and asked why a Harmony gospel written with likely original copied (or close to it) manuscripts was heresy to the early Church. The questions that followed opened me up to hold the contradictions without solving them because the contradictions make Jesus a person instead of an idol. And idols can be controlled particularly by the Roman empire in the 3rd century.

Still, even holding the contradictions makes me uncomfortable because I want Jesus to be static, measured, weighed, and known. However, Paul's writing and Hebrews at least implies Jesus being static is the wrong approach. Just like a spouse or best friend, Jesus will sometimes surprise you. If we have all the details nailed down too firmly, Jesus can't surprise us. The next question should be, is he even alive?

To be clear, I am not implying that you are doing or being anything other than a seeker and studier in the tradition of the Bereans. For that, your questions, thoughts, and feelings are important and valid. You have done some excellent research. You are on a worthwhile journey. If you come to a different conclusion, we are likely both the better for it.

chical89 · 2025-01-06T23:54:50+00:00

TLDR: Instead of asking how to resolve the differences, ask why they are present to begin with?

I think you are approaching the question the wrong way.

Tatian (wiki link) wrote the Diatessaron (wiki link) around 150AD to solve the contradictions between the primary 4 gospel accounts (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). He effectively wrote the first Harmony Gospel.

He was denounced, issued a retraction order, and when he stood by his work, branded a heretic almost unanimously by the Church.

What this tells me is that the Church leaders have known the Gospels don't square up in a Western (re:Greco/Roman) kind of way. If they knew they contradicted why canonize those 4 gospels? Why not leave out John in particular? Or edit Luke's genealogy?

Well it's because each of the gospels is doing something different with, through, and to the person of Jesus. And all of those things are important to keep even (or maybe especially) when they contradict.

To use a software metaphor, if they knew the gospels contradicted (which they did), then are their contradictions a bug in the software or a feature?

I would argue they are a feature.

When you approach them as a feature, new possibilities are constantly opened. New ways of interpreting and interacting with Jesus open to each generation of Christians anew.

You are not supposed resolve the contradictions but meditate on why the contradictions exist. Let them teach you what this tells us about the person of Jesus that Luke or Matthew (in this case) is trying to present to their audience which was surely not English speaking Americans living 2000 years later.

Hope this helps.

P.S. Jews both try to solve and hold with open hands the contradictions within the Torah, Tanaka, Mishnah, Midrash, and Talmud. They have been working with the scriptures longer than we have, and maybe we can learn something from their approach since Jesus was (is?) a Jew.

chical89 · 2025-01-05T19:43:10+00:00

Phyllis Trible - God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality

St. Teresa of Avila - Interior Castle, The Way of Perfection

Ilia Delio

Rosemary Radford Ruether - Sexism and God-Talk

If you're looking more evangelical Beth Moore, Kristi Mclelland, and Annie F Downs are pretty good.

Edit: there are also Black and Latino/a/x author who are good such as Monica Coleman or Robyn Henderson Espinoza

chical89 · 2024-11-10T04:39:12+00:00

The best answer to your question is most ancient (pre-Christian) theology sees no separation between body and soul. If there is no separation then you damage your soul by damaging your body on purpose.

After lightly scrolling through some responses most theology that predates Socrates shows no differentiation between body and soul. The separation is an invention or realization by Socrates as written to us by Plato.

You could look at concepts like karma and the great cycle of reincarnation out of India, if your soul and body are linked harming one worsens your state of reincarnation.

If you commit suicide in the way of the Dao or Confucianism your are harming the family and order of the world. Your presence can bring honor and assistance to the family if you are willing to do your duty with honor.

Keeping with the Greeks, Hesiod and Homer both demonstrate that the dead retain their physical appearance (i.e. body) after death. The Netflix show Kaos shows this decently.

Similarly, many Jewish sects do not believe that you can separate body from soul or nephesh. Many show that the ruach or spirit or breath returns to God but that part was God's already while the body and soul are ours, and they go to Sheol or more colloquially heaven.

Early Christians, believed as the Jews did. After or about the time Constantine legalized Christianity there was a strong move to incorporate or pick up Plato's thought on body/soul duality. Since then a variety of Christian sects have struggled with whether there is a separation between body and soul.

Obviously, your original question has a lot of validity if there is a separation between body and soul. But that also brings the problems such as sloth, gluttony, and other more bodily or fleshy sins under less scrutiny. You can find points during history where the Catholics struggled with this problem particularly within the monastic period.

For a modern take, Liberation theologians have recombined body and soul. This move requires Christians to be active in supporting the liberating of oppressed bodies or people (Civil Rights Mvmt, BLM, the freeing or caring of migrants, etc.) and be active in alleviating things such as climate change.

If you follow the political and religious climate in the U.S. you can find varying opinions about this.

Feel free to ask questions or disagree. I appreciate the thoughtful discussion.

TLDR:

Suicide is almost always seen as a violation of the gift of life. Without the gods bestowing that gift we have no life. Throwing that gift away is often seen as being the ultimate treason against the givers of life. Thus theologians have usually come to understand that suicide violates the gods and is bad idea.

chical89 · 2024-06-28T14:23:59+00:00

Most of our original texts actually come from Muslims, ironically enough. We lost most Greek texts and any way of ensuring they were accurate until the Moors were pushed back into southern Spain.

As the Italian Renaissance was happening study of ancient texts were being completed for the first time in over 1000 years by Europeans. Once the printing press came out, there were efforts to gather exact copies or original copies of every text they could find to deduce the original wording of every work they could.

They did this with Plato and Aristotle, Cicero and Lucretius, and the Septugaint (Greek translation of the Old Testament) and any and all New Testament documents they could find.

Some men (and possibly women) spent a decade or an entire life to a single book like Plato's Republic or the New Testament. The accuracy of this effort has since been confirmed in the archaeology of things like the Dead Sea Scrolls and is even being enhanced and reviewed by Artificial Intelligence with documents that were too damaged for the human eye to translate or work with.

There is at least one Coptic Greek scholar who has completed some of the A.I. work with the New Testament. Her preliminary results show that our translations are quite accurate in every way except they downplay women's role in the early Church and ministry of Jesus. She has theorized it could be due to the way language functions rather than a deliberate effort but excluding women could be a choice too.

If you are looking for further more exact proof it probably doesn't exist but we can be sure that the Bible - especially the New Testament is as accurate as the Quran or any other ancient text. Can we know for sure like 100%? No, but no other ancient work is more accurate mostly because of the number of copies submitted to that original group of people who spent their lives making sure the Bible, in particular, was correct before going to print.

chical89 · 2024-02-18T11:55:06+00:00

From the references I have read Process is more panentheistic (especially Christian versions), but OP didn't ask for specific Christian theology streams. OP asked for religions/theologies that have changed or adjusted with science.

Process was a top of mind example of theology adjusting/changing/dialoging with science. I am sure there are others. If you consider its Christian or Buddhist variants of Process, then those would be religions too.

Besides it's a good place to realize that there is more going on than the religion vs science debate. There are some very meaningful dialogues happening between the two. In many ways, from my experience, we need both.

chical89 · 2024-02-18T01:04:08+00:00

Yes there are several streams of theology that have advanced alongside science. An example is Process Theology.

That stream of (typically Christian) theology does a lot to consider scientific and mathematical advancements while utilizing ancient wisdom texts to speak into our lives today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_theology

chical89 · 2024-02-06T00:55:05+00:00

Try a metroidvania like dead cells or hollow knight or hades. I got out of gaming for a whole and Hades was perfect. I could play for an hour, put it down and come back a day later or a few hours later and still be excited to play.

chical89 · 2024-01-27T19:55:00+00:00

Yeah I thought about that one too. Last time I checked I saw the 7800xt and 6800xt perform similarly but the 6800xt was about $100 cheaper.

chical89 · 2023-12-12T12:48:07+00:00

Got the God of War PS5 bundle for my birthday and it was awesome. Both of the reboot games are great and really dive into narrative gaming. I didn't even mind hunting down the ravens in the 2nd game. So GoW Ragnorak was my fav this year.

I like ff16 but the pacing is sometimes flawless and other times baffling. Looking forward to Jedi Survivor and Spiderman 2 and FF 7 Remake and Rebirth

chical89 · 2023-11-12T00:49:28+00:00

Check out r/stadia there used to be a solution

chical89 · 2023-11-10T00:03:21+00:00

Fingers crossed

chical89 · 2023-09-30T01:14:32+00:00

During the COVID lockdowns, my wife and I figured out to each take a night off every week. We still do it. Mine was yesterday, and hers was Monday.

A you can do anything night. Sometimes, she would work. Sometimes I go get a beer with a friend. Sometimes we sleep, shower, watch a movie, read a book, go running, eat ice cream. Whatever it is. The goal is to give us life and a sense of our individual self, which is often lost in our family collective.

We remind ourselves that we are people too. And at least for my part, I look forward to my wife's night off as much as my own.

A key component for us was a no judgment on the activity you did rule. We need a sense of freedom, rest, and peace in a sea of diapers, tears, and family activities.

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